John Crompton Weems

John Crompton Weems (* 1778 in Waterloo, Calvert County, Maryland; † January 20, 1862 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1826 and 1829 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Weems attended St. John 's College in Annapolis and worked afterwards as a planter, among others. In the 1820s he joined the short-lived National Republican Party. Following the resignation of Mr Joseph Kent Weems was due to the election for the second seat of Maryland as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 1 February in 1826. After a re-election, he could remain until March 3, 1829 in Congress. This period was overshadowed by the quarrels between supporters and opponents of the future President Andrew Jackson. Weems was one of Jackson's opponents.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives John Weems again worked on his plantation. Politically, he is no more have appeared. He died on January 20, 1862 on his plantation Eden hole at Arundel County.